Ireland - Electricity production

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total)

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in Ireland was 62.81 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 94.89 in 1989, while its lowest value was 58.80 in 1960.

Definition: Sources of electricity refer to the inputs used to generate electricity. Oil refers to crude oil and petroleum products. Gas refers to natural gas but excludes natural gas liquids. Coal refers to all coal and brown coal, both primary (including hard coal and lignite-brown coal) and derived fuels (including patent fuel, coke oven coke, gas coke, coke oven gas, and blast furnace gas). Peat is also included in this category.

Source: IEA Statistics © OECD/IEA 2014 (http://www.iea.org/stats/index.asp), subject to https://www.iea.org/t&c/termsandconditions/

See also:

Year Value
1960 58.80
1961 69.91
1962 75.73
1963 77.49
1964 76.83
1965 74.51
1966 78.73
1967 81.75
1968 84.15
1969 88.93
1970 86.15
1971 92.61
1972 90.10
1973 91.24
1974 89.70
1975 93.07
1976 92.85
1977 91.70
1978 92.76
1979 92.24
1980 92.07
1981 91.81
1982 92.38
1983 92.73
1984 93.88
1985 92.91
1986 92.53
1987 94.61
1988 93.24
1989 94.89
1990 79.32
1991 80.62
1992 80.98
1993 83.56
1994 83.05
1995 84.40
1996 84.41
1997 85.43
1998 86.28
1999 87.11
2000 87.52
2001 86.93
2002 86.06
2003 87.27
2004 88.57
2005 83.13
2006 82.99
2007 82.17
2008 78.82
2009 75.90
2010 79.04
2011 72.19
2012 71.47
2013 68.82
2014 65.29
2015 62.81

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use